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When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

Pierre de Ronsard
Beautiful, Fire, Wool
Pierre de Ronsard (1934). “Pierre de Ronsard: Sonnets Pour Hélène; with English Renderings by Humbert Wolfe”
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.